Thursday, February 16, 2017

Wishing You Love Reminder for CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

The Design Team and our talented Guest Designer, Michelle have
some more inspiration cards for you to enjoy.

Hope to see your's there too.

DH and I recently went to Virginia for a few days.
While he was in meetings, I played with my Koi travel set
and some previously stamped pieces.

This piece hadn't stamped clearly but I decided to try to salvage it.

After I colored the butterfly and did a very light wash on the background,
I took my Extra Fine Point Black Sharpie and dotted the fine tip around the
outline of the butterfly where it hadn't stamped well.
This technique is called Pointillism.

I finished it off with one of my favorite Penny Black sentiments.

I'm thinking about adding some sequins.
I'm not sure that I want them.
What do you think?

30 comments:

Beautiful design, Bonnie! Love the sweet butterfly. Great job saving it with your black fine liner ... looks perfect!! Love the black stripe at the bottom to ground the design. I love it the way it is ... sans sequins. xx

I usually add sequins for boo boos or to add balance to a finished card front. I do not see any boo boo's and your sentiment and strip of black at the bottom give your card wonderful balance. TFS your tip, Bonnie of using pointillism to repair your pretty butterfly. Hugs..

What a great save! Your 'points' are so well done. This is a technique I've struggled with, and to date, never very successfully. Your butterfly is beautiful, and I like the way you've got the scant black bottom border to emphasize the black on the pretty blue flutterby. Glad you had a little weekend away. TFS & Hugs

Butterflies are one of my faves to do on cards and this card is lovely. Beautiful color butterfly with the black....touch-ups and all. I don't think it needs sequins...serene and so pretty just the way it is

Well saved with your fine line pen Bonnie and I love that pretty blue you have used for the butterfly and the touch of blue in the background for the sky, also the black line at the bottom grounds the delightful sentiment. x

Wow, your butterfly card is beautiful Bonnie! Love that butterfly and the colors you watercolored it with. Nice save as well!! Yes, I think you should put some sequins on it, can't go wrong with a few sequins! lol How fun that you got to go with DH to VA!!! I love VA! Hugs, Brenda

So glad you saved the butterfly - it's lovely in those shades of aqua and turquoise. The wide black border of the butterfly balances perfectly with the black strip at the bottom and the heavier font in some of the sentiment.

Forgot to say - I don't think it needs sequins but if I were to put them on, I'd try one to the right of the butterfly and two (one larger, one smaller) quite close together to the left of the sentiment. Either clear ones or very pale aqua.

Beautiful, Bonnie, just beautiful coloring and design! I'm always conflicted about adding dots and sequints, too! Maybe in between the butterfly and sediment to bridge that gap and make a connection? (She says, shrugging, cuz what does she know, lol!) Hugs, Darnell

Such a beautiful butterfly...too bad it's retired! I love how you watercolored his wings in such a lovely palette and how you added details with Pointillism...so striking! My vote: no sequins...it's gorgeous just the way it is :)

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